Games like Scratches - Director's Cut
If Scratches - Director's Cut is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Michael Test and Post Mortem — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere builds relentless tension, atmospheric and eerie. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Top pick for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Michael Test
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Second-strongest match for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
This is a test about sin. An audio-driven horror mystery where you reconstruct the hidden timeline inside a painting through sound and expose the sin concealed within.
Post Mortem
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Third-strongest match for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
ASYLUM
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Ranked #4 for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Dead Secret
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Ranked #5 for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
Decay: The Mare
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Ranked #6 for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Sam is an addict who ends up in an institution named “Reaching Dreams”, hoping to kick his drug problem and sort out his miserable life. But during the first night, something goes horribly wrong and he gets stuck in an endless nightmare…
Still Life
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Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Ranked #7 for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Still Life 2 also now available!
Serena
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Ranked #8 for Scratches - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Post Mortem
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
ASYLUM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Serena
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Scratches - Director's Cut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Scratches - Director's Cut.
How long has it been? A man sits in a distant getaway cabin waiting for his wife Serena. Where is she? Things in the cabin evoke memories, and the husband comes to a disturbing realization... This short point-and-click adventure is the result of a massive collaborative effort between dozens of fans and designers of adventure games.
Frequently asked about Scratches - Director's Cut
- What games are most similar to Scratches - Director's Cut?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scratches - Director's Cut are Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Michael Test, Post Mortem.
- Who developed Scratches - Director's Cut?
- Scratches - Director's Cut was developed by Nucleosys.
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